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Headline Sports with Charlie O: Will A’s finish up their Bay Area days at Oracle Park in San Francisco?

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Will Oracle Park be a landing place for the Oakland A’s after the 2024 season?, the A’s would not lose a share of Bay Area TV revenue between 2025-27 while the Tropicana Park is being built in Las Vegas (SF Travel file photo)

On Headline Sports with Charlie O:

#1 How crazy will it be to have the San Francisco Giants host the Oakland A’s at Oracle Park in the 2025 through the 2027 seasons while the Tropicana is being built after the Giants would not cede South Bay territorial rights to the A’s.

#2 The A’s know they will not get the cut of Bay Area TV money if they were to play in Nevada or Sacramento and just to go ahead and finish they’re last three season in the Bay Area in San Francisco.

#3 The relationship between the City of Oakland and A’s owner John Fisher and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred is so toxic because of how they got to this place it’s very unlikely the A’s will finish their last three seasons at the Oakland Coliseum.

#4 A’s fans led by the Oakland 68’s have called for a boycott, not a reverse boycott but a full on boycott for no one to show up at the A’s opening day game on Thu Mar 29th at the Coliseum against Cleveland.

#5 There has been some hope that Schools over Stadiums will get it together and get the court to approve their petition to get signed by some 102,000 Nevada residents, put the no public funding for the ballpark on the Nevada ballot for vote in Nov 2024 also Rep Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) and Rep Mark DeSaulnier will introduce the “Moneyball act” a measure that would require Oakland A’s owner John Fisher or any Major League Baseball owner who relocates it’s team 25 miles from it’s former location to compensate their former community or MLB would lose it’s anti trust exemption.

Charlie O does Headline Sports podcasts Sundays at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

MLB The Show podcast with Stephen Ruderman: A’s move could end up in courts; Rep Lee and Sen Padilla might look into baseball’s anti exemption over issue

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Rep Barbara Lee (D) Calif speaks at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. Lee has said that she and Sen Alex Padilla (D) Calif might look into baseball’s anti trust exemption and how MLB and A’s owner John Fisher moved the team to Las Vegas and how it impacts California financially (AP file photo)

MLB The Show podcast with Stephen Ruderman:

#1 This week MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said the City of Oakland was not prepared with an offer to the A’s. Many a talk show host and reporter said that was not true that Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao said they were close to a deal.

#2 Mayor Thao said Howard Terminal had the finishing touches ready to go and was 10% of the way there.

#3 Do you believe that A’s owner John Fisher and Manfred wanted Las Vegas all along even though the Howard Terminal deal looked like it was close to being completed and they made the “binding agreement” in Las Vegas announcement ahead of any deal with the City of Oakland?

#4 Historically how will baseball history look back on Commissioner Manfred and owner Fisher. Will it be favorably because they brought baseball to Las Vegas or negatively because they didn’t bargain in good faith with the City of Oakland because they were close to a deal.

#5 The hopes of any change for the A’s to stay in Oakland rests with the MLB owners who have a vote that could be coming as soon as next week. Will they vote no because the A’s are not paying any relocation fees which would be a $30 million share for each team or no team in the future would have to pay a relocation fee in the future.

#6 Should playing in the #40 media market matter? Las Vegas is the smallest in MLB with the smallest park in MLB.

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